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“I suppose it is all in how you experience the world. My first year was so magically transformative that I paused a very different professional life, bought a home in a mountain town, and committed myself to teaching skiing full time. I LOVED those first year days on the bunny hill. Today, I mostly guide high alpine terrain with very advanced skiers, but I still occasionally teach people from Texas who have never seen snow - I love every movement of that work. It is a chance to connect with people, to share my love of skiing, and, if we are successful beat the odds. 80% of people never ski a second day after trying it once. So many things in life are about perspective. I know you are not alone in feeling disappointed in instructing. I serve on a PSIA board of directors and we lose more new instructors than we retain - I'm deeply concerned and attentive to that. At the same time we, so much of life is about mindset. If we show up frustrated and mad because there's no snow and someone has booked us to do our job then how is that going to work out? What happens if we make it fun and make games out of it? "Dodge the brown snow!" is a lot more fun than yelling at a client. After all, at the end of the day, our guests are clients. They buy an experience. They want everything from hearing about your life in the mountains to athletic coaching to thrilling experiences. Sometimes we are therapists. Sometimes we are marriage councilors. Sometimes we are a kids best friend for one day. That's the joy of the job for some of us, and the burden for others in our community. I'm not all sunshine and roses - there is a real insincerity and fragility to employment in a mountain town. Anyone who uses the word career doesn't understand what that word really means. And anyone who thinks they are going to make a real, comfortable, sustainable living in seasonal winter employment has either been previously successful, currently delusional, or subsidized by family. There is a real and important issue here and it is passed on to the consumers and visitors. Still, how we experience what we chose to do is up to us. Teaching and guiding has been the most rewarding thing I've ever done (and I'm lucky enough to have done some things of which I'm very very proud). For me, getting to have 140 days a winter full of connections, breakthrough moments, and one of the best communities I've ever found has made a lot of the trade offs feel less painful. And the joy has been immeasurable. I hope we can continue to evolve the culture around instructing towards something more personally, financially, and emotionally sustainable. I just want to say, that for me, from day one, it has been one of the greatest things I've ever gotten to do! When I finished my first year a I wrote some essays too, and I thought it might be helpful to share my favorite distillation here: (note, at the time, I was writing in the frame of my other professional work - innovation leadership) **He”
“The very first sentence introduces "many hills" as the subject of first clause and sets "such as Manning Park" aside as a modifying non-restrictive clause. It then says "if you skied there", which implies a singular place, but if referring to Manning Park individually instead of "many hills" then it's a confusing misplaced modifier since Manning Park wasn't the subject of the preceeding clause. It then states "Hemlock is the greatest place to ski and there are many reasons for it." So what is the thesis? Is it that Hemlock is merely better than Manning, or that Hemlock is the greatest place to ski out of the "many hills" previously mentioned? If so, why discuss Manning and not anywhere else? We need a bit more focus on what exactly is being argued. "First things first" is a bit of a clichéd and informal transition, but that's just a style choice. Next concern is the "Since Hemlock is a popular family mountain you will find longer lift lines. This is not so bad." If framing an otherwise negative trait as a positive, give a signifier to the audience at the start that there's a silver lining to what you're about to say to avoid whiplash. Also, the silver lining being that there's hot chicks I want to fuck and can stare at is a fundamentally inappropriate perk to list in a highschool persuasive speech. As is noting you can't bang someone you meet at Manning. The structure sets up this comparative back and forth between the mountains with a series of sentences that alternate their pros and cons. It then states "If you were to build a back country kicker at Manning..." and then "Not so at Hemlock". Following that established structure I would expect the next sentence to be about Manning. But it's not clear that "If you do not want to ride the powder you could got[sic] to the terrain park." refers to Hemlock until sentence that follows it. "Hemlock has a better all mountain experience within half the driving time." I guess this is the restatement of the thesis you were referring to, but if so, why are we indroducing brand new information at the very end of it? Driving time from where? The only travel that was mentioned for Hemlock was about staying in a condo and not driving at all. The last sentence is clever and cute, but again, dedicating half of the conversation about a ski resort to the adolescent author's desire to get laid. As I said, B material. It's got some good elements and moments of decent writing, but feels like a rough first draft and pushes too hard to get laughs for being lewd. Not terrible, but not deserving of an all out 100%.”
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